Panthers and the Salary Cap

[Happy Panther]

Smith is washed up.

Do we have to exclude yesterday's game in this analysis as well?

[Ricky Spanish]

I haven't took time to study every team in the league but in my opinion its really bad when compared to the majority of the teams in the league.  

 

Here is an interesting article that talks about some of our contracts:

 

http://overthecap.com/best-worst-contracts-2014-carolina-panthers/

 

Its not just the size of the various contracts on the roster, its the structure of them.  Alot of our bigger contracts have been restructured and/or had voidable years added to them. Some of this was actually done by DG, but once you get so far behind on the cap you have to do this just to have enough cap space to field a team.

 

Look at Kalil's contract:

 

http://overthecap.com/player/ryan-kalil/1190

 

He has been restructured several times and has voidable years.  In theory he could void his contract in 2017 and we would still have a cap hit of $3.3m.

 

For those who don't really understand voidable years:

 

http://overthecap.com/the-voidable-year-and-the-salary-cap/

 

 

This is the reason I oculd never understand ANYONE defending Hurney, and why Gettleman gets a pass on any contract/penny pinching roster move he makes until 2016. In my book at least. 

 

Christ, reading that just made me angry. 

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

This is the reason I oculd never understand ANYONE defending Hurney, and why Gettleman gets a pass on any contract/penny pinching roster move he makes until 2016. In my book at least. 

 

Christ, reading that just made me angry. 

 

when you really drill down and break down the cap/salary situation the arguments against gettleman just boil down to some nit picking about what he did with like two draft picks, a bunch of piss and vinegar about smitty (nobody is willing to argue that he'd be worth a 20+ million cap hit over the next two years when confronted with it i'm finding) and "well he should have done something" when it comes to our OT situation

 

it's rhetoric and pulpit-thumping vs facts, numbers, and reality basically

 

e: also if you hate what's going on now it's only natural to be biased toward the predecessor no matter how bad they were at their job